Hip hop originated from the Bronx specifically; that means everything. I'm down the block from where hip hop was born and raised, so I'm glad I am here and I'm able to represent New York the way I am.

People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.

One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.

We have not invaded anyone. We have not conquered anyone. We have not grabbed their land, their culture, their history and tried to enforce our way of life on them.

There is not enough funding for basic sciences in India. We have to invest in a big way, and I am pushing that idea.

The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.

The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.

When Southern people tell us they are no more responsible for the origin of slavery than we are, I acknowledge the fact. When it is said that the institution exists, and that it is very difficult to get rid of it in any satisfactory way, I can understand and appreciate the saying.

I have tried to talk about the issues in this campaign... and this has sometimes been a lonely road, because I never meet anybody coming the other way.

He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.

Affairs are easier of entrance than of exit; and it is but common prudence to see our way out before we venture in.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way.

Stupidity has a knack of getting its way.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.